WHEN MEDIA MATTERS ATTACKS: They should be glad that somebody noticed. And the most damning bit: “Since this smear piece was posted at Media Matters, we’ve gotten all of 14 … yes, 14 … hits from their page.”

UPDATE: More Boehlert-busting.

AT POWERLINE, still more on the weathermen issue.

UPDATE: Related roundup here.

DAVID ADESNIK IS BACK AT OXBLOG, and he’s got some interesting things to report: “I’ve mentioned in passing that I’ve been travelling abroad for the past few months. Well, that was a euphemism. I was in Iraq, working as an analyst for the Coalition’s counter-IED task force.”

VIDEO: The Living Sea, free from Amazon this week. “It’s like the video equivalent of blood pressure medication — very, very mellow. And gorgeous.”

GERARD VAN DER LEUN ON FOOD-SHORTAGE TALK: “There will never be a shortage of bullshit.”

UPDATE: Jim Herd: Stop hoarding giant bags of rice!

MICHAEL YON WILL BE ON MARK LEVIN’S SHOW at 7:30 Eastern tonight, talking about his book and the situation in Iraq. You can go here and click “station finder” if you want to listen, or listen live through the site.

ETHANOL AND ETHICS: Professor Bainbridge has thoughts on growing food-shortage reports.

GOOD NEWS: “Rep. Jack Murtha (D-Pa.) will have an opponent this year after all. “ And one who already has some significant support. Where do I donate?

UPDATE: And the answer is . . . right here! Thanks to reader Diane Martin.

TOM MAGUIRE checks the math.

TYLER COWEN ON ALTERNATIVE ENERGY: “It’s worth noting that if we had to build today’s energy infrastructure working under the current regulatory and NIMBY burden, it probably could not be done. So it shouldn’t be surprising that building a new energy infrastructure is proving so hard. There’s a reason why many of us think deregulation is a big issue and it’s not because we want to see people poisoned by Chinese botchagaloop.”

A LOOK AT CLINTON, OBAMA, MCCAIN, and the future of space policy.

ROGER KIMBALL: Why do politicians love a crisis?

It’s job security, plus opportunities for graft.

UPDATE: Charles Austin emails:

If I may, I will embellish your answer to Roger Kimball’s question by quoting Governor William J. LePetomaine:

“We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Hurumph! Hurumph! Hurumph!”

Ah, Mel Brooks’ best role. Once he seemed like a comic figure, but not so much anymore.

NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINE: U.S. Troops, Exhausted and Overwhelmed: “Hi all. I am tired. I guess that about sums it up. I am about to start another day helping the totally defeated Iraqi 14th Division figure out what to do with all the captured JAM personnel and equipment…heh.”

PAIRINGS: Thoughts on which beers go best with which books.

HENRY KISSINGER on China, India, and us. ““It would be a tragedy, if Chinese nationalism, and maybe some provincialism on our part, produced a situation in which we clashed. It might be like World War One in Europe. The two antagonists would drain each other and only third parties would benefit.”

TENNESSEE SUPERDELEGATE JOHN TANNER commits to Hillary.

PETRAEUS WILL BE CentCom commander. Ray Odierno will take his current position. This is likely good.

BUT I HATE COLD WEATHER: Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh. And I wish people would make up their minds. I don’t know what to wear.

Anyway, the Fallen Angels scenario is making a comeback.

UPDATE: Related item here.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Gaia is trying to warn us.

Plus, record mountain snowpack in the West.

ABERCROMBIE AND FITCH product placement?

THE SCIENCE OF PROTECTING YOUR TESTICLES: Some of it’s kind of obvious: “The main thing is just to avoid the direct blow. If you get any sort of high speed impact, that’s going to cause trouble.” Do tell.

DOG BITES MAN: Microsoft turns the DRM screw on MSN Music owners.

MICHAEL SILENCE is unimpressed with the state of academic tolerance today.

UPDATE: A different take from TigerHawk:

Now, I do think that the common lefty idea that Tom Friedman is some sort of right-wing stooge reveals far more about common lefties than it does about Friedman, who — thoughtful as he is — is himself well to the left of the American center. But, the throwing of pies at speakers on college campuses has a long and storied history going back generations. Not only is it funny in a “Three Stooges” way, but it has the advantage of being fundamentally not serious. Far better to toss a pie with a smile than to work oneself up into an indignant rage over some theoretical affront, which is the usual tactic of both left and right in what passes for civil society these days.

I agree, unless I’m wearing Canali or Brioni. Then it ‘s war.

A ROUNDUP OF THE TEN MOST WANTED green car technologies.

ROGER SIMON: Wright, Ayers, and Obama: An Agnostic Quotes the Bible.